Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 2 | Channel 5 Everyone wants more choice , and Channel 5 has been driven by technological developments . |
| 3 | When asked if he thought Essex 's capital allocation was adequate , Mr Burns replied : ‘ Nothing is ever adequate by definition — everyone wants more money . |
| 4 | For factoring , which involves more work , the charge can be anything between 0.5% and 3% of invoice value . |
| 5 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 6 | I was n't exactly selling drugs to teenagers : most of my friends were in the music business in London , and you ca n't find a business which goes more hand in hand with it . |
| 7 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 8 | To pursue that vision Mr Levin is giving up a lot : after Toshiba , ITOCHU and US West , Time Warner is left with just 63% of TWE , which produces more than two-thirds of the group 's cash flow . |
| 9 | Bentham would say that the one which produces more pleasure is the better action , but Mill would say that it need not be , if the quality of the pleasure which is lesser in amount is sufficiently much higher in quality . |
| 10 | US consumption of electricity is expected to grow by 46 per cent , and coal , which produces more carbon dioxide than either oil or gas , is expected to continue as the staple fuel for generations . |
| 11 | Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . |
| 12 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 13 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 14 | It is the country which needs more graduates , it is industry which says demand outstrips supply . |
| 15 | This is a problem which needs more evidence . |
| 16 | On such a picture , a region of space which contains more than its fair share of matter ought to pull in still more by gravity , so that a cluster of galaxies forms in the heart of a region of space sucked clean of matter . |
| 17 | White noise is not a good simulator of music , which contains more energy at low frequencies than at high ones . |
| 18 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 19 | The first evolutionary scenario , which places more emphasis on the intentional ingredient than McDowell would allow , is as follows . |
| 20 | The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain . |
| 21 | We have 75 tubs of Neck Gel to be won ; just tell us which has more vertebrae in its neck , a giraffe or a horse . |
| 22 | Thus short-wave radiation , which has more energy , is likely to be more dangerous than long wave . |
| 23 | Now that attitude is changing , most obviously on the West Coast , which has more money than other earthquake zones to experiment with new designs and materials . |
| 24 | The type which has more protein to lipid is called a high density lipoprotein or HDL . |
| 25 | At the other extreme , on the eastern Pyrenees , is the rare , semi-wild Alberes or Massanaise , which has more in common with the primitive Iberian cattle of Corsica , Sardinia and the Camargue . |
| 26 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 27 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 28 | She chose pattern 137 from ‘ Stitchworld ’ , which has more holes than fabric . |
| 29 | Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics . |
| 30 | However , there is another aspect of his position which has more in common with the revisionary as opposed to liberalizing tendency within the discipline . |